After his brotherís death, Aki is summoned to Arabia by his brotherís ex-lover, Prince Shairul. Told he must be compensated for his brotherís sins, Aki realizes there was more to love affair then revealed. Despite his situation, Aki canít help but feel captivated by Prince Shairul eyesÖ

Ridiculous, lolicon, lacking of common sense. Not funny at all. One moment seme's raping a kid and next he's praying like a saint, without even a second thought. Primitive lustful seme with strange reasoning. Obedient stupid uke - didn't even thought about escape. What a piece of crap. Ya know, I don't mind rapes and rough semes but I can't stand stupidity, it was really annoying.

Seriously, yaoi writers need to stop picturing arabian people that way. I've tried several 'arabian princes' stories and it's ALWAYS the same. And it's bad.This one was particularly lame, with revenge/rape plot, which can be well done, but which wasn't. -_-

Awesome one shot full of all those wonderful yaoi tropes that satisfy lots of fantasy kinks. The uke is beyond believably magnanimous, and the Prince is unbelievably self-centered in his thinking of feelings, but -heck- it's fantasy, and it is beautiful in art and story! <3

That said, the inverse is also true: if you don't get a wooohaaa out of fantasy non-con, rape-love, weepy uke-dominate seme, small and light pretty boy vs dark and tall pretty boy, angst, and angst, then read the extremely realistic art and words of Partners by Yura Tamaki. Now, that is what being gay, liking real whips, and dealing with real issues of the American 90s. It's stunningly brilliant as well!

If you are like me, enjoy the fantasy of this one, and the incredible realism of that one!

DO NOT READ! even though the cover pic is amazingly beautiful, the inside is crap. The drawings are nothing like the cover. The uke looks like he's 7 years old and he gets

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raped by the king or whatever because of something his brother did. and then he falls in love with the rapist, which is really not realistic and it wasnt done realistically either. i mean, the night after the boy gets raped he happens to see his rapist crying(not about raping him) and then the boy thinks 'oh, his eyes are so beautiful!'